Rotate layer through x and y in V.6?

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:50 am

Please excuse my ignorance, but I don't see the buttons in the LAYERS palette to rotate layers through the x and y axis, available in version 5.6?

Thanks. Otherwise I totally LOVE version 6. Sequencer and audio possibilities alone rock my socks. Oh greatness.

mkelley · Post by **mkelley** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:07 am

There is one button now instead of two -- the one button allows you to choose either X or Y (or both -- actually, using the mouse it's almost impossible not to do both).

Mike consolidated a lot of the layer buttons -- I'm not *quite* sure why since saving a tiny bit (about 10 pixels on screen, by my calculations) doesn't matter all that much, and it definitely made things less straightforward and more cumbersome in many cases. The good news is that adding the old tools back is pretty straightforward so if you want you can tailor your tools the way *you* want them (the real beauty of AS 6 is it's scripting abilities).

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:45 am

Aaahhh...thanks. That makes sense now.

Shot

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:55 am

You can hold the shift key to constrain the layer rotations. Also BOTH rotations are in text boxes with one tool so it saves time when you need to type in values.

Just a helpful tip.

-vern

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:15 am

Mkelley, I work in a 12" tablet and the tool consolidation saved me a lot of space. Believe me. And if this can create new scripted tools with tiny tools inside, it's great. I see to my old and huge tool window on 5.6 and make me happy it won't back.
Anyway, you can create your own scripted tools and put them on AS, so actually you can have all tools you want on the window. I don't know, but Vern says it's very easy to actualize a script from 5.6, I suppose this include tools.

mkelley · Post by **mkelley** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:44 am

Everyone works differently, Selgrin. My own workflow is to never use the keyboard -- I use the mouse and my shuttle pro (which has all the keys assigned that I need).

So a tool MUST work with a single button press, which consolidation ruined. Yes, I can recreate the tools (and I have been doing so) but I didn't see any user request ANYWHERE asking for this -- if I'm wrong, point me to it on this forum (and if it's there, it certainly can't be very many who wanted it). And not everyone has the talent or inclination to script.

When something has a long standing interface as... "different" as AS has, changing it without a lot of requests to do doesn't make any sense. This is one where I think Mike really blew it (at the very least he could have offered different tool setups and preserved the old ones for those of us who really need them).

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:59 am

Mkelley, AS give you the possibility of change it almost entirely. You have already a solution for your own workflow, what you are asking can be done today.
For people as me, who don't know lua, here is the forum, here is a lot of supportive people which will help for sure. My AS 5.6 is absolutely personalized and I want to make the same with version 6. For example, Blend Morph tool hasn't shortcut, I could write here a lot of discussions about the needed of a shortcut for Blend Morph, but a better solution was ask Mike the new strings and change it for myself. Now anyone who want to change a shortcut on version 6 can do it. Maybe no one else change it, but there is the option.
AS can be adapted to many workflows, it requires a little knowledge but nothing which don't be here on forum.

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:38 am

I didn't see this first before posting this,
viewtopic.php?t=14141

But even when holding the shift key, it can still make it uncomfortable. I rather have them separate.